Now call it coincidence or teletherapy or what ever you like I don’t care but the strangest thing happened. Lauren my daughter-in-law called. “Hi ... and what can I do for you this fine evening”? I said trying to sound upbeat. Lauren I must add is distant family, well she is the wife of a stepson but hey, family. She and Adam were having the usual marriage difficulties we all experience from time to time and this was no different. She went on to tell me that this was different. She had been. But Lord Drak is on a stealth corvette with a spindrive and the entire logistic apparatus of the Hegemony at his beck and call. Worse, the only FLT capable ships on this planet are your fast pass attack force, which are all aging sundivers with jackdrives, the Victrix Imperiata, which is crashed and currently being hacked into pieces by your techs, and the Tiamat, which is a crater!”Techne growled softly. Enriquah coughed. “Uh, right! You could hop onto your fast pass ships and go up the Chain.. What questions?”“I don’t have any now. But I will. Maybe not for a long time. I’m not ready for boys yet. They’re dumb. Like you.”She stuck her tongue out and moved out the door before I could say anything.Yeah, I’m dumb all right. She had that one right. I closed the journal and locked it in my box. I’d have to figure out a plan because the box was basically full.Speaking of plans, I had to figure out what to do when I talked to Becky. Jennifer had said ‘Go figure things out with Becky’. That. Maybe I could get lucky and a hot repair women would show up. With nothing to do but wait, I am starting to feel a little horny. I decide to rest a bit, hoping I might find some comfort. I remove all of my clothing and throw the covers from the bed. I place one of the fans as close as I could to the bed in an attempt to keep the air circulating. As I lay there, my mind unwilling to drift into sleep I find my thoughts turning toward visions of full sweet lips, lips wrapping themselves around the.